First Annual Wimberley Book Festival

Wimberley, TX – You’re invited to join 45 authors from around the state who will gather at the Wimberley Community Center Saturday, June 11 for the first annual Wimberley Book Festival produced by the non-profits Texas Authors, Inc and DEAR (DropEverything and Read) Texas, Inc.

More than 200 authors will be represented with their books specializing in African American, art, autobiography, biography, children’s, Christian, cook books, crime, educational, entertainment, family, fantasy , fiction, graphic novel, historical, historical fiction, history, humor, inspirational, medical, metaphysics, military mystery, nature, new  age,  non-fiction, photography, poetry,  political, romance, Sci-Fi, self-help, spiritual, Texas, travel, wester, young adult and more.

Featured local authors are Kira Jenene Holt, Clark Gray, Tanya Kilgore, Jack Knox, Lara Gray, Randall Reneau, Allan C Kimball, Michael Earney, Kathleen Shields, Larry Morris, plus many award winning authors from around the state. You can learn more about each of the attending authors and the books they write by visiting the DEAR Texas web site at: http://deartexas.info/index.php/events/wimberley.

Doors open at 10am until 4pm where you will have the opportunity to meet and visit with the authors and take home some new and favorite books.

The event is free, though donations to support the DEAR Texas Literacy program and the Texas Authors Institute of History museum are encouraged. TxAuthors has already begun obtaining books to establish the Texas Authors Institute and would like any book that was created and or published by a Texas Author.

TxAuthors will acknowledge your donation with a receipt showing the approximate value of the book. Historians are working with TxAuthors for collector’s editions and current authors for the newer works.

For more information about Texas Authors, Inc, please visit their website at http://TxAuthors.com.